I found this interesting application through Flowing Data. You can search for TV shows to produce visualisations of IMDB ratings and viewing trends over time. It can mainly be used to explore the response to TV shows across series. It’s an example of how data generated from engagements with TV shows can be drawn upon to explore and envision culture – although analytically it is quite limited it can be used to explore pretty much any TV Show. Another example of the culture of visualisation (described briefly in here).